Tools for Statistical Disclosure Control in Research Data Centers

Tools for researchers to explicitly show that their results comply to rules for statistical disclosure control imposed by research data centers. These tools help in checking descriptive statistics and models and in calculating extreme values that are not individual data. Also included is a simple function to create log files. The methods used here are described in the "Guidelines for the checking of output based on microdata research" by Bond, Brandt, and de Wolf (2015) < https://cros.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2024-02/Output-checking-guidelines.pdf>.

Article Formats for R Markdown

A suite of custom R Markdown formats and templates for authoring journal articles and conference submissions.

Permutational Group Sequential Test for Time-to-Event Data

Permutational group-sequential tests for time-to-event data based on the log-rank test statistic. Supports exact permutation test when the censoring distributions are equal in the treatment and the control group and approximate imputation-permutation methods when the censoring distributions are different.

Taxonomic Information from Around the Web

Interacts with a suite of web application programming interfaces (API) for taxonomic tasks, such as getting database specific taxonomic identifiers, verifying species names, getting taxonomic hierarchies, fetching downstream and upstream taxonomic names, getting taxonomic synonyms, converting scientific to common names and vice versa, and more. Some of the services supported include 'NCBI E-utilities' (< https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25501/>), 'Encyclopedia of Life' (< https://eol.org/docs/what-is-eol/data-services>), 'Global Biodiversity Information Facility' (< https://techdocs.gbif.org/en/openapi/>), and many more. Links to the API documentation for other supported services are available in the documentation for their respective functions in this package.

High Dimensional Categorical Data Visualization

Easy visualization for datasets with more than two categorical variables and additional continuous variables. The package is particularly useful for exploring complex categorical data in the context of pathway analysis across multiple conditions. This package is now in maintenance-only mode and kept for legacy compatibility; for new projects and active development, please use the successor package 'ggdiceplot' (see < https://github.com/maflot/ggdiceplot> and < https://dice-and-domino-plot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>).

A Time Series Database for Official Statistics with R and PostgreSQL

Archive and manage times series data from official statistics. The 'timeseriesdb' package was designed to manage a large catalog of time series from official statistics which are typically published on a monthly, quarterly or yearly basis. Thus timeseriesdb is optimized to handle updates caused by data revision as well as elaborate, multi-lingual meta information.

Parametric Time-to-Event Analysis with Variable Incubation Phases

Fit parametric models for time-to-event data that show an initial 'incubation period', i.e. a variable delay phase where no events occur. The delayed Weibull distribution serves as the foundational data model. For parameter estimation, different flavours of maximum likelihood estimation ('MLE') and the method of maximum product of spacings estimation ('MPSE') are implemented. Bootstrap confidence intervals for parameters and significance tests in a two group setting are provided.

Get Data from the 'KOF Datenservice' API

Read Swiss time series data from the 'KOF Data' API, < https://datenservice.kof.ethz.ch>. The API provides macro economic time series data mostly about Switzerland. The package itself is a set of wrappers around the 'KOF Datenservice' API. The 'kofdata' package is able to consume public information as well as data that requires an API token.

Response Quality Indicators for Survey Research

Calculate common survey data quality indicators for multi-item scales and matrix questions. Currently supports the calculation of response style indicators and response distribution indicators. For an overview on response quality indicators see Bhaktha N, Henning S, Clemens L (2024). 'Characterizing response quality in surveys with multi-item scales: A unified framework' < https://osf.io/9gs67/>.

Agreement of Nominal Scale Raters (with a Gold Standard)

Estimate agreement of a group of raters with a gold standard rating on a nominal scale. For a single gold standard rater the average pairwise agreement of raters with this gold standard is provided. For a group of (gold standard) raters the approach of S. Vanbelle, A. Albert (2009) is implemented. Bias and standard error are estimated via delete-1 jackknife.